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Lin Yi (odetokafka) wrote,
@ 2008-07-28 17:47:00

Profile; Lin Yi

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. . . The Basics
NAME: Lin Yi
ALIAS: While Lin is her “American” name, as her grandparents like to call it, her “Chinese” and legal name is ZhenZhen. Her Chinese name means ‘precious’ and follows all the rules of fight club; you don’t talk about her Chinese name, when she says stop, or goes limp, even if she’s just faking it, talking about her Chinese name is over, etc etc. The only people in the world who call her ZhenZhen are her grandparents.
GENDER: Female
RACE: Werewolf
ACTUAL AGE: Twenty-Six
DATE OF BIRTH: March 29th, 1981
BIRTH LOCATION: Cape Coral, Florida
OCCUPATION: Lin is an author who writes in the erotic fiction/suspense thriller genre. To date she has four published novels; “Her Dress of Fire” (August 2002), “The Moon That Falls” (March 2003), “Falling Darkness”, a sequal to TMTF (June 2004), and “Angels Die” (February 2006)

. . . Physical
APPEARANCE: Lin stands at five feet and seven inches, a bit over the norm, with midnight black hair and eyes to match. However, she is also known to dye her hair different shades depending on her mood. No outrageous colors have yet to touch her head, mostly just several hues of browns, dirty gold and the sort. Lin isn't sickly pale, but she isn't tanned either for she spends a large majority of her time indoors or out long after the sun has gone down, not to mention the fact that she is particularly diligent about taking good care of her skin. With a shapely figure, she finds it easy to flirt with the opposite, and the same sex, being somewhat of a sultry person by nature. Because of this, when she's not working, she usually dresses in more or less, clothes that reveal quite a bit of skin. Nothing too promiscuous, but the usual low-cut pants and the rest that comes with. Her eyes mostly reflect her own dry humor and apathetic distraction, but she can also be seen with a flirtatious wink and a light smirk tugging on her lips. It mostly looks as if she isn't taking things seriously enough because of the facial expressions she holds on her visage.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Lin had an eventful spread of teenage years which left her with plenty of physical trademarks including four piercings in her left ear and six in her right, a naval piercing, a tiny scar on the side of her nose where there was once a stud, a crescent shaped scar about the length of her index finger on the back of neck, a small scar on her left wrist, and a nickel sized burn scar on the inside of her left thigh, and three tattoos; the female fox from Fox and The Hound on her left shoulder (black), a rose on her right hip (color), and the tagline from fight club, ‘How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?’ circling around her ankle twice (black).
CLOTHING: Lin's sharp eye for coordinating color and aesthetically pleasing combinations has furnished her closet with a wealth trendy looking items and her sales ensure has enough in her pockets to be able to afford those stylish looking sweatpants with the deliberately placed hole in the knee. So even when she rumages through her closet to throw on something for conviences sake rather then to look nice she inevitably ends up in something that looks very Saks Fifth regardless. Despite her personality Lin likes bright colors; orange, red, blue--green is her favorite color so there's plenty of that floating around in her closet.

. . . Personal
PERSONALITY: Lin is much more like her parents than she’d happily admit. Like her father she’s slightly apathetic and has trouble expressing soft emotions. Unlike her father, who clams up completely in conjunction with such feelings, Lin hides these kinds of feelings behind jokes and odd and random gestures. What she really enjoys is irking and teasing the people she likes the most. She’s like the boy in first grade who pulled the pigtails of the girl he had a crush on. She must have inherited her laziness and her bad morning disposition from her mother, because they both share it. If she has to be up before noon Lin requires whole pots of coffee before the grumpiness fades away. She’s a nap sort of person and will find ways to catch a few winks in even the oddest places.

Lin is not so much flirtatious as she is lecherous and she is very frank and open about commenting on a male or female she finds attractive. A friend once likened her to a “dirty old man” to use her exact words. She regularly has a laid-back “I don’t give a damn” attitude. There are many times when she does care even if she acts as if she doesn’t. But more often she just really doesn’t give a damn. She’s an acerbic person but has enough tact not to shoot off at the mouth whenever she feels. She’ll think it though and often let the fact that she’s thinking something show on her face and if the individual is reckless enough to question after the thoughts she’ll rarely say no to giving it voice.

Lin has moods , although phases might be a better word for them, and are defined by which stage of writing she’s in. There is no time when she isn’t planning, writing, revising, or finishing some piece and it’s pretty easy to tell which she’s doing. Lin’s most frequent and average stage is planning, which happens before and between stages of writing one piece. She isn’t much different from normal then, although she tends to seem very distracted and will sometimes stop paying attention to things around her, causing her to perform stunts like walking into trash cans, tripping over large objects, and missing whole chunks of conversation at a time.

Lin is nicest, most sociable, and cheerful during what her agent calls her “Procrastination Period”, which usually happens between planning and writing periods and around finishing a piece. Her disposition during this time is best described as kittenish and she latch on to any reason, excuse, or opportunity to do anything besides actually sitting down and working. Contrastingly, while you’ll never find Lin more amendable or affectionate than when she’s procrastinating, it’s best to stay away from writing and revising Lin at all costs. When writing she usually seals herself up in her room for days at a time and becomes very irritable (and violent if you ask her agent) if she’s disturbed or interrupted. Once she’s finishes normal Lin is restored and all is right with the world until the cycle starts all over again.

QUIRKS & HABITS: Lin talks to her pets, which would be her dog, Kelly, and her octopi Erato and Thalia. And she swears they talk back. Well Kelly does. The squids are largely uninterested in her day to day life. Ocassionally likes to do things just to see what the reaction of others might be. She often bases her characters after real life individuals; appearance or personality wise, and if she encounters someone interesting she'd like to reap for her work she's bother, hover about, and usually provoke that person in an attempt to uncover all facets of their demeanor. She calls it human study.
LIKES & TURN ONS: Coffee; black with half a dozen teaspoons of sugar. Just the smell of coffee and/or coffee beans is equivilent to catnip for her. She's a big fan of the ocean. It helps her relax and she finds the sound of water soothing. She use to keep fountains but her dog would break them during attempts to use them as water bowls. Collaborative naps; an event similar to a sleep over, except that it usually happens in the middle of the day. Liquor; being a big drinker, Lin is a fan of anything alcoholic except for whiskey. Mohitos happen to be her favorite mixed drink, closely followed by the Margarita. Beaded jewelry; the sound, the look, there's just something about beads that she finds attractive. Denim jeans; there's just something about a very good pair worn just right...
DISLIKES & TURN OFFS: Surprises; after being stalked for sometime, a bunch of people jumping out of closets on her birthday is liable to get someone punched in the nose. She does not enjoy having to expect the unexpected. Whiskey; the one fire water she won't touch. She won't eat sea food, since she insists her octopi are intelligent and wouldn't be pleased to know she'd been consuming their cousins. Winter; she's a fall and spring kind of girl and extremes of temperature make her grumpy. Once snow hits the ground it's almost impossible to drag her out from under her blankets. The word "bohemian"; the very sound of it and any connection of it to her makes her want to gnash her teeth. The word "moist"; she thinks it sounds dirty and this is from a woman who writes erotic fiction for living.
ORIENTATION: Pansexual

. . . Favorites
COLOR: Green
FOOD: Candy Canes
DRINK: Tie: Coffee, Mohito
SONG: Abracadabra by Steve Miller Band
BOOK: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
MOVIE: Fight Club
PLACE: Her Bed
SEASON: Autumn

. . . Background
FAMILY: Shen Yi [father]. Kelly Yi (maiden name: Chu) [mother]. Meng Yi, Jia Yi [paternal aunts]. LiangYi, WenYan Yi [paternal uncles]. XiaoJian and MeiLin [cousins]. Her mother’s family disowned Kelly and subsequently, Lin.
PETS: She owns a dog named Kelly; a Rottweiler that she got from the pound. Kelly is three years old and currently in the care of Lin's literary agent while she's away at Halcyon. With her, Lin brought her two pet octopi Erato and Thalia.
PERSONAL HISTORY: The extended Yi family believed, and many still believe, that Lin was a bit of a disappointment.

They blamed the child’s behavior on her mother, Kelly Chu; a woman from a high class household who had been disowned from her family for marrying against their wishes. ‘Against their wishes’ was named Shen Yi, a high school teacher that Kelly met during her junior year.

The couple resisted temptation for a year until Kelly turned eighteen. Five months later Kelly was pregnant, Shen was fired for his inappropriate relationship with a student, and the couple was on their way to a chapel. There were no family members from the bride’s side in attendance during the ceremony.

Although the Yi family had not had any major objections about Shen’s choice of wife, they were not fond of Kelly. While Shen was only first generation American, Kelly was third and far more westernized than her husband and his traditional family. Worse still, coming from wealth, she was a high maintenance girl. She couldn’t do any kind of housework nor did she have any marketable skills with which to procure a job. She wasn’t very intelligent and lacked the ability to exercise any significant problem solving skills. They considered her spoiled and good for nothing and would never understand what Shen saw in her.

Despite the forbidden romance of their meeting and marriage, Kelly and Shen did not create a warm and open family. In fact, the Yi family preferred to avoid expressing emotion at all; except for Kelly who was very fond of detailing feelings of annoyance and anger. To top it off, by the time Lin was ten her parents were both busy people; her father with his new job and her mother with spending the money Shen’s new job brought in. Family dinners, parent-daughter bonding, talks about growing up and maturity did not occur during in the Yi household. Lin learned about drugs, sex, feminine issues, and all else besides from television, books, and friends.

Her writing career started from there. A child who knows that asking certain questions will cause an intense awkwardness to descend on her home life tends to keep quiet verbally. She wrote instead. Lin filled whole notebooks with her wonderings and imaginary scenarios when she was a child. The only uncomfortable moment that came from that was when her mother accidentally came across a well detailed narrative of a fourteen-year-old Lin’s first wet dream. Mother and daughter did not speak or even make eye-contact for almost five months afterwards.

Her home life being as tense as it was made Lin seek laxity and freedom with single-minded intensity outside of it. Inside the house Lin was quiet, reserved, and fairly obedient. School and outside activities were met with gregarious, wild Lin, who many people believed had a drinking problem. Her parents were fairly unobservant people so as long as she kept her hair down they didn’t notice all the piercings in her ears, socks hid the tattoo on her ankle, and sleeved shirts hid the other on her shoulder. She had to remove the nose stud when her father asked if it was real. She lied and told him it was magnetized.

The separation of her home and outside life were well compartmentalized. As long as she didn’t give them any reason to, her parents didn’t ask her about school or her friends or where she hung out. The only people who prodded into such areas were her grandparents, who were constantly complaining about the way that Lin had “forsaken her roots”, blaming their granddaughter’s westernization wholly on Kelly. They were probably right, but luckily Lin didn’t have to listen to them too often since her grandparents only spoke Chinese and Lin had never learned to.

When she was sixteen, her school guidance councilor advised her that if she was considering seriously attending a good college once she graduated; she should start working on her extracurricular. Lin started off trying the school newspaper, which she was kicked off of for embellishing her articles. (Embellish is the word she uses. The principal called it lying.) The supervisor redirected her to the school magazine which published short works of fiction. It was love at first print.

After high school she began college at New York University, in the city of starving artists, and majored in English Literature. Out of her parents’ house there was no need to separate her home demeanor from her outside demeanor and she got use to being “Fun Lin” 24/7. She spent her first year of college the way most freshman do; drinking, smoking, and overall neglect of classes.

By the time she returned home for school that summer, she’d completely forgotten about mediating herself around her mother and father. That and bad grades gave her parents something to talk about. She couldn’t pour a glass of a milk without her father asking how she could possibly get a D is philosophy or her mother remarking about how cynical she’d become. When the fall semester of her second year rolled around, Lin fled from her parents house like the hounds of hell were after her.

By the end of that semester her grades became so bad that she was put on academic probation. With the threat of being kicked out of school and having to move back home permanently looming over her head, Lin worked like mad spring semester to bring her average up to par. A healthy flush of As brought her GPA up to a 2.6 and the academia gods were appeased.

The new caliber of her work impressed her writing professor who encouraged Lin to try writing longer pieces than she was use to. She spent the summer living in an apartment in Brooklyn with a friend while she finished what would be her first published novel. It was predominantly erotic fiction with just a splash of mystery for flavor. A year of rewriting, revising, and reworking (and one very moody Lin) got the book published under the title “Her Dress Of Fire”.

The novel turned out to be a popular piece and the next thing Lin knew, the publishing company was asking for more. By the end of her college career she’d come out with a second book, “The Moon That Falls”, which sold 4 million copies its first day out. She graduated NYU and moved into an apartment in the Bronx at age twenty-two. She published two more books and lived a normal life during the following four years.

It was the end of spring and very beginning of summer on the evening that Lin was walking her dog through Central Park. Her mother had been complaining about how unsafe it was in the city. Lin had bought a dog, a Rottweiler, in a feeble effort to appease the woman and named it Kelly to annoy her. It was the first full moon since she’d bought Kelly (the dog) and Lin had always taken the dog for night strolls through the park every few days. That night Kelly was acting strange; her fur raised and snarling at what Lin thought was shadows.

Lin was attempting to shush the dog when Kelly got off her leash and raced towards a clump of trees. She followed after the dog and found Kelly attacking what she thought was another, much larger canine. She tried to break things up by reaching for Kelly’s leash to pull her away. The other “dog” must have mistaken her motions for more hostility because it turned and bit her on the wrist. The noise had rouses the attention of a group of the central park police officers and the "big" dog ran off at the gleam of flash lights and the sound of numerous voices as the officers approached.

Lin was taken to the hospital, sat while they put the stitches in, called to cancel the cell phone she'd dropped in the park, and then returned home and put Kelly in time-out. Two weeks passed and Lin came home one day to find a message on her voice machine. It was from a man named David Bishop, who claimed that HE was the animal who bit her in the park and that he picked up her phone in the park and needed to speak to her. Lin deleted the message, figuring he was some crazy person who’d overheard her at the hospital. After two more similar messages and a phone call in which he made the same claims, Lin had her number changed.

Near the end of the month, as the moon came back to fullness again, she met David for the first time. He broke into her apartment just before sunset, grabbed a beer from her fridge, and sat down on the couch. Lin was in the middle of calling the police when the change started.

The pain was intense and brought her to her knees. Across the carpet she could dimly see David going through a similar process. Watching him she could see her own alteration; from human to beast. The whole situation was more than Lin could take and she fainted from shock two-thirds of the way through the shift.

When she woke up it was morning and David was still in her apartment. The claw marks on her couch and floor were proof that she hadn’t been dreaming. Once she stopped yelling, David explained to her what had happened. The night at central park had been only his second shift and biting her had been an accident. She kicked him out of her apartment at that point and they didn’t speak for a week.

Seven days later David came back with a scout from Halcyon, a demon who worked as a police officer and had received the report about the Central Park animal attack. The scout told her about Halcyon. At his and David’s urgings she agreed that she’d go. David told her that he’d be going to Halcyon as well once he cleared up a few personal matters. She made him buy her a new couch, rented out her apartment to a young couple from Ohio, and covered her departure by telling her mother and friends she was moving to London for a while.

. . . The Supernatural
MAGICAL ABILITIES: The Shift
TRAINING: Not long after she started getting popular, Lin was stalked by a few obsessive fans so her literary agent had her take self defense lessons, just in case anything happened. She learned how to ride a horse during her third year in college and learned to surf during a vacation to Jamaica.
SPECIAL SKILLS: Writing is Lin’s biggest skill as it’s kept her fed, clothed, and living indoors for the last four years. She’s an artsy person to the bone and her eye for color and aesthetics is razor sharp making her skilled at things like decorating and coordinating her attire. She majored in English Literature and is a well of quotes and references from classical authors and works. She has a very very high tolerance to alcohol which she achieved from eight years of excessive under aged drinking and five years of excessive off-age drinking.
WEAKNESSES: She has that old werewolf weakness to silver, which she discovered when she tried to put on one of her rings. She is obligated during the full moon to change form. She can be killed by decapitation, spine trauma, severe head trauma and damage to the heart. Lin is a smoker so she isn’t really the best at performing physical activities for long periods of time and lacks a bit in stamina. Plus she’s downright lazy.

START DATE: New Arrival; July of 2007
HOUSE: House Of Fire
CLASSES: Mid Afternoon – Inner Beast Control [1:30pm - 2:30pm]
Late Afternoon – Supernatural Races: Fact & Fiction [2:45pm - 3:45pm]
GUIDE TEACHER: Ezra Rishi

. . . In The Stars
STAR SIGN: Aries; Aries is the first Sign of the Zodiac, and that's pretty much how those born under this Sign see themselves: first. Aries are the leaders of the pack, first in line to get things going. Whether or not everything gets done is another question altogether, for an Aries prefers to initiate rather than to complete. Do you have a project needing a kick-start? Call an Aries, by all means. The leadership displayed by Aries is most impressive, so don't be surprised if they can rally the troops against seemingly insurmountable odds -- they have that kind of personal magnetism. An Aries won't shy away from new ground, either. Those born under this Sign are often called the pioneers of the Zodiac, and it's their fearless trek into the unknown that often wins the day. Aries is a bundle of energy and dynamism, kind of like a Pied Piper, leading people along with its charm and charisma. The dawning of a new day -- and all of its possibilities -- is pure bliss to an Aries.

The symbol of Aries is the Ram, and that's both good and bad news. Impulsive Aries might be tempted to ram their ideas down everyone's throats without even bothering to ask if they want to know. It's these times when you may wish Aries's Sign's symbol were a more subdued creature, more lamb than ram perhaps. You're not likely to convince the Ram to soften up; these folks are blunt and to the point. Along with those qualities comes the sheer force of the Aries nature, a force that can actually accomplish a great deal. Much of Aries's drive to compete and to win comes from its Cardinal Quality. Cardinal Signs love to get things going, and Aries exemplifies this even better than Cancer, Libra or Capricorn.
ZODIAC SIGN: Yin Metal Rooster; The qualities associated with metal are unyieldingness, rigidity, persistence, strength and determination. The metal person is controlling, ambitious, forceful and set in their ways as metal is very strong; and they are self-reliant and prefer to handle their problems alone. The metal person is also materialistic, business oriented and good at organization and stability. However the metal person can also appreciate luxury and enjoy the good things in life. Just as metal can conduct electricity, the Metal person has strong impulses and generative powers and can bring about changes and transformations for those who come into contact with them. Metal is believed to govern the lungs, nose and skin. The negative emotion associated with metal is grief, while the positive emotion is courage.

People born in the year of the Rooster are usually very observant. They are brave, resilient and tenacious but can also be quite self-absorbed, pretentious, and overly romantic. Most of the time, they are very accurate and precise with their observation. These people certainly love to find themselves in the spotlight, they love entertaining friends and adore meeting new people, and even unexpected and uncertain circumstances are not a barrier for them. It is almost impossible to find someone born in this year looking dowdy or untidy. The fact is that these people are usually the best dressed and groomed of all other people. They are actively interested in clothes, colours, and accessories. People born in the year of the Rooster like to be noticed and flattered. Such a person might dress a little flashy with this in mind, but in his heart, he/she is completely conservative. Roosters always appear attractive and beautifully turned out. Others may criticize them for being exhibitionists but the fact that they are compassionate, wise, and have a brave nature which comes to the fore when others need their help, makes up for that deficiency.

Roosters are very loyal individuals. They do not like dishonesty or mockery of any sort. They are blunt, up front and honest people and expect those around them to be the same. Roosters are happiest when they are surrounded by others, at a party or just a social gathering. It is difficult for these people to accept advice because of their strong independent spirit. These people are often confident in their own judgment and choices. There are times when these people may be too straight-forward which can cause some problems in relationships with others. So it would be wise sometimes not to express their opinions in order to keep the peace.
TAROT CARD: The Emperor; As Aries, the Ram, the Emperor naturally follows the pregnant Empress. Aries is the infant, the first sign of the Zodiac. Like an infant, he is filled with enthusiasm, energy, aggression. He is direct, guileless and all too often irresistible. Unfortunately, like a baby he can also be a tyrant and be impatient, demanding, controlling. In the best of circumstances, he signifies the leader that everyone wants to follow, sitting on a throne that indicates the solid foundation of an Empire he created, loves and rules with intelligence and enthusiasm. But that throne can also be a trap, a responsibility that has the Emperor feeling restless, bored and discontent.